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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 400. 



Marsh or Eice Field Mice of the Eastern 

 United States.' The number contains the 

 'Quarterly List of Gifts, Appointments, Ee- 

 tirements and Deaths.' 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE. 



To THE Editor of Science: In Science for 

 March 21, 1902, Mr. Erank W. Very writes an 

 article on ' Scientific Nomenclature ' ; he says 

 that " Scientific descriptions remain unintel- 

 ligible to the lazy man who hates to use the 

 dictionary. They are free property to all who 

 are willing to take this trouble." Mr. Horace 

 White comments on this in the number for 

 March 28, and gives the word ' ecology ' as one 

 which he could not find; the discussion which 

 followed has been interesting and instructive; 

 Dr. George M. Gould, the learned editor of 

 American Medicine, gave it an editorial notice 

 in his journal of July 19. I fully indorse Mr. 

 Very's opinion of the ' lazy man,' but one who 

 hunts up all words that are new to him will 

 have many disappointments if he expects to 

 find them all; during the past month I have 

 been keeping a list of words not in the diction- 

 aries that I have; these dictionaries are 

 Webster's International, edition of 1890; the 

 Universal or Encyclopedic, 1897, edited by 

 Eobert Hunter and Charles Morris; and the 

 Century, edition of 1902. Following is the list 

 of words, with the name of the user, and place 

 where I found them : 



Chemotaotic, S. J. Meltzer, M.D., American 

 Medicine, Vol. IV., p. 61. 



Isotonic (in a chemical or physiological sense), 

 do., p. 63. 



Epeirogenic, Robert T. Hill, National Geographic 

 Magazine, July, 1902, pp. 228, 238. 



Electron (in reference to an atom of electricity), 

 J. A. Fleming, Popular Science Monthly, May, 

 1902, p. 6. 



Micromil, do., p. 10. 



Avalent, do., p. 15. 



Steroehemistry, do., p. 15. 



Catalyzer, Carl H. Eigenmann, Popular Science 

 Monthly, May, 1902, p. 39. 



Sedentation, Professor V^''. H. Holmes, ' National 

 Museum Report,' 1900, p. 177. 



Automatograph, Geo. M. Stratton, Science, 

 July 4, 1902, p. 25; Milieu, Geo. M. Stratton, 



Science, July 4, 1902, p. 25. (A French word, 

 but one meets it occasionally. ) 



Tropism, Professor E. B. Titchener, Popular Sci- 

 ence Monthly, March, 1902, p. 463. (Also in 

 Science, XV., pp. 793.) 



Chemoreflex, do., p. 463. 



Photo-reeeption, do., p. 465. 



Pylophore, Professor J. 0. Branner, Popular 

 Science Monthly, March, 1902, p. 407. 



Garial, Professor S.. W. Williston, Popular Sci- 

 once Monthly, February, 1902, p. 314. 



Acutiplantar, Robert Ridgway, ' Birds of North 

 and Middle America,' Part I., p. 24. 



Esthetology, J. W. Powell, ' Report of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology,' 18, Part I., p. 

 XX vi. 



Sophiology, J. W. Powell, ' Report of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution,' 1898, p. 45. 



Activital, J. W. Powell, ' Report of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology,' 18, p. sxvi. 



Conventionize, -ism, do., pp. xxx, xxxi. 



Demonomy, J. W. Powell, ' Report of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology,' 15, p. xix. (In sense of 

 ' science of humanity.') 



Accultural, -ed, do., 18, pp. xxxiv, xxxvii. 



Protolithic, do., 18, pp. xxxvii, xxxviii. 



Technolithic, do., 18, p. xxxviii. 



Lexie, do., 18, p. xlii. 



Peyote (mescal), do., 18, pp. xxviii, xliv. (Also 

 Havelock Ellis, Popular Science Monthly, May, 

 1902, p. 52.) 



Prototroch, Robert Payne Bigelow, ' Reference 

 Handbook of the Medical Sciences,' 1902, Vol. IV., 

 p. 656. 



Biophor, do., p. 654. 



Bionomics, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Science, 

 July 4, 1902, p. 5. 



Ethology (biologic meaning), William Morton 

 Wheeler, Science, Vol. XV., p. 975. 



Orthogenesis, H. Spencer (quoted from Eimer), 

 ' Principles of Biology,' Vol. I., p. 503. 



Determinant (in Weismann's sense), H. 

 Spencer, ' Facts and Comments,' p. 129. 



These have been noted during the past 

 month; many of them are self-explanatory; a 

 few are found in the dictionaries, but with no 

 meaning given to correspond with that which 

 the user wishes to convey; there are no doubt 

 good reasons why these are not given in the 

 dictionaries, but it seems to me that some of 

 them deserve a place therein. 



E. H. Harper. 



